Healing

MUKUL SHARMA Remission, or the spontaneous disappearance of the symptoms of a life-threatening disease, occurs often though it's not fully understood by medical science. In Cancer Ward, for instance, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes, "It happens rarely, but there are cases of self-induced healing... Due to some reason, the tumour starts in the opposite direction, gets smaller, resolves and disappears. " Since most doctors tend to dismiss such cases as being hearsay or anecdotal at best, the International Noetic...

By Steve Tongue Luiz Felipe Scolari called it the worst day of his life and many Brazilians, football fanatics as they tend to be, will feel the same way. The sheer humiliation of a 7-1 home defeat by Germany in the World Cup semifinal last summer left deep scars. Now, under Scolari's successor Dunga, the long healing process is underway. Brazil have eight successive victories this season, including 1-0 against Chile last night. Just before that was an impressive 3-1 success...

BANGALORE: She climbed 18,000 feet to rediscover herself as an entrepreneur. On a trekking expedition to Mount Everest, Radha Basu decided to venture out on her own after spending 20 years at HP. By that time she had transformed different divisions at HP, including commencing the computing giant's India software operations in 1987. In 1999, Basu joined the board of SupportSoft, a tech start-up in Redwood City, California, that focusses on selfhealing technologies, as its...

A man went to a doctor for relief from wheezing. The doctor asked him to have a cold water shower for an hour, sit in front of an air conditioner for another hour and come back to him for treatment. The patient got frightened and said that if he did that his wheezing will be full blown into asthma. The doctor said,"that is exactly what I want. I know how to treat asthma, but not wheezing!" When healing turns into a business proposition, it can lead to great danger, both to the healer and...

NAGPUR: The Centre has failed to give any healing touch in its policy road map budget to the distressed three million dry land farmers which are growing cash crops like cotton and soybean in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, a farmers advocacy group alleged here. There is no announcement on fulfiling Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pre-poll promises on farm loan waiver and giving higher MSP according to a proposed formula of investment plus 50 per cent...

On empty roads, the monotonous sound of the car's engine makes the only noise. Even the poplar trees are depressingly quiet, their solitariness accentuated by Kashmir's misty winter. Their denuded anguish exacerbated by the plight of their downhearted human companions. Some brave and perhaps foolhardy Kashmiris in heavy-conflict zones have also voted this time; their audacity a reflection of anger at what Omar Abdullah's government did to their paradise. Omar did not turn it...

NEW DELHI: With ancient therapies like ayurveda and naturopathy gaining popularity across the globe, the government wants to make India a global healing destination. Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni today called upon various organisations in the field of health and wellness to join hands with the government for the purpose. "I want to make India a global healing destination where people from across the world can get physical as well as...

Brandon Bays strikes you as one of those young diminutive women from the Europe of the 1950s, straight from the photo archives of the Life magazine. But it was her mother who was a young woman in the 1950s. Bays was just born around then - to an American father and Austrian mother, who was the lone survivor in her family from Nazi concentration camps. Her father was a soldier - and a scientist - posted in Vienna. "My mother thought she had...

Colours have a healing effect on the body. One may find oneself drawn towards a particular hue due to a need within the body to to achieve balance, says Dr Mita Bhan The fundamental belief behind ancient colour therapy is that all energy comes from one source, and the goal of an individual is to achieve unity with that source. Hence colour plays an important role in achieving that alignment. Intuitively, the colour you choose has a healing effect on your system....

NEW DELHI: Healthcare provider Narayana Health and US-based firm ConvaTec today launched an 'advanced wound clinic and limb salvage centre' in Bangalore. The joint venture clinic will provide facilities for the prevention and healing of chronic ulcers and is aimed at maintaining higher limb salvage rate comparable to the leading centers in the world, the companies said in a joint statement. The companies however did not give any details about the nature of...

Story is a healing art that enables us to explore the emotional dark pockets of the psyche in a non-threatening way. In fact, some therapists acknowledge that story was originally used for healing in a broader everyday context, only later transmitted into the therapy room because it worked. Since story-work provides distance from one's direct experience, it is less likely to trigger off resistance, and can help a person develop new attitudes and actions towards situations and...

By: Satya Krishnan For centuries, the city of Bhopal, at the very geographic heart of India, was famous for its lakes, mosques, palaces, cuisine and the inimitable Begums who ruled this earlier state. Take a walk through old Bhopal and you would think that time has come to a stop here. A nondescript doorway leads you into an old haveli's courtyard. The walls of an ancient fort peek out from behind modern billboards. The...

NEW DELHI: BJP's plan to win hearts and minds in the Kashmir valley seems to have been firmed up with the coinage of its new slogan, "Chalo chalein Modi ji ke saath, chalo badlein Jammu-Kashmir ke haalaat.' "J&K has seen terrorism and curfews for a long time now. It is time that they experience a semblance of normalcy and development. This is what BJP will promise them - development in a corruption free atmosphere," a senior BJP leader said, adding that the idea is...

JAMMU: Condemning the violence in Saharanpur, the state unit of BJP here has said that monetary compensation cannot heal the wounds caused by violence. "We condemn incident of the Saharanpur violence. Monetary compensation cannot heal the wounds caused by violence, atrocities, injuries, destructions and deaths", co-incharge of BJP State unit, Sardar R P Singh told reporters here last evening. Singh further alleged that the incidents were a...

NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government's first budget is expected to lend a healing touch to businesses bruised by 'tax terrorism' unleashed by authorities in a bid to bolster revenue during the economic downturn. Provisions in direct and indirect tax laws that place unbridled powers in the hands of tax authorities could see some checks coming in. Under examination are provisions in the service tax law that led to arrests across the country,...

KARACHI: Tehreek-e-Taliban militants, who launched a major assault on Pakistan's largest airport here, were carrying XStat devices which can heal gunshot wounds within seconds and were aiming for a long siege of the facility, a security official said today. "This devices are used to stop bleeding and heal gunshot wounds in 15 to 20 seconds," a source in the paramilitary rangers told PTI. The security forces found XStat or ...

Be sure to allow yourself enough time to ease into the "spa frame of mind. " Arrive at least half-an-hour before your appointment to allow your mind and body to prepare for the whole experience. Don't forget to elave your worries outside the door. Let the soft lighting, fragrant essential oils and quiet atmosphere of a healing retreat enfold you. Shower before any treatment. It washes away the tensions of the day, along with makeup, fragrances and lotions that may interact with products...

When we talk of a consumer driven society thriving on materialistic goals we tend to blame ? and quite rightly ? hypermarket controls as an overriding function of greed. This, as proponents of alternative lifestyles point out, disconnects us from family, relationships and the natural world and tricks us into accepting an over-hyped, less fulfilling life. In other words, while humankind once sought truth and meaning in nature, now the market actively broadcasts its own version.

NEW DELHI: With a majority of smartphone users adopting Android as their mobile platform, over 4 lakh Android malware were detected during the January-March period this year, security solutions firm Quick Heal said today. "Total Android malware detected by Quick Heal was over 4 lakhs, Android adware consisted of almost 89 per cent detections," Quick Heal said in its 'quarterly threat report' for January-March, 2014. It said 80 per cent of the...